Word

καταφιλέω

kataphiléō · G2705 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

to kiss

To kiss, either as an expression of greeting or as a sign of special affection and appreciation

Examples
Matthew 26:49 And immediately Judas went up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed Him.
Mark 14:45 And after coming, Judas immediately went to Him and said, “Rabbi!” and kissed Him.
Luke 7:38 and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, and began kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

6 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 4
Not stated: they 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

6 occurrences in 2 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
πούςfoot 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

διαλείπωto cease 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

נָשַׁק nâshaq · H5401 · to kiss, to brush against, to touch: Hebrew נָשַׁק (nâshaq, H5401) is the standard Old Testament term for 'kiss' (including earnest/affectionate kissing), which the Greek καταφιλέω (kataphiléō, G2705) renders in LXX contexts with its intensified 'kiss earnestly/repeatedly' sense; the Greek compound (κατα- prefix) emphasizes thoroughness or intensity of the kissing action that Hebrew נָשַׁק expresses contextually.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To kiss34.62: In Matthew 26:49, of Judas's betrayal it is written, “immediately Judas went up to Jesus and said, ‘Greetings, Rabbi!’ and kissed Him,” using this word for the act of kissing someone earnestly.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon καταφίλω; imperfect κατεφίλουν; 1 aorist κατεφίλησα; to kiss much, kiss again and again,…

καταφίλω; imperfect κατεφίλουν; 1 aorist κατεφίλησα; to kiss much, kiss again and again, kiss tenderly (Latindeosculor, etc.): τινα, Mt 26:49; Mk 14:45; Lk 7:38, Lk 7:45; Lk 15:20; Acts 20:37. (Tobit 7:6; 3Macc. 5:49; Xenophon, Cyril 6, 4,10; 7, 5, 32; Polybius 15, 1, 7; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 7; Aelian v. h. 13, 4; Plutarch, Brut. 16; Lucian, dial. deor. 4, 5; 5, 3; φιλεῖν and καταφίλειν are distinguished in Xenophon, mem. 2, 6, 33; Plutarch, Alex c. 67. The Sept. for נָשַׁק, properly, to join mouth to mouth.) Cf: Fritzsche on Matthew, p. 780; Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part ii., p. 18, note{21}.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Kiss, Embrace6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0